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  • The Nokia 9 PureViewthe crazy smartphone with one selfie camera in the front and 6

  • cameras on the back.

  • Talk about overkill.

  • Holding this baby up to your ear, you'll look like the outside wall of a high security detention

  • center.

  • Today we're going to see what it all looks like from the inside.

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  • Let's get started.

  • [Intro]

  • As with most glass backed smartphones, we're going to start with the heat gun.

  • The thing that makes this Nokia 9 different though is the amount of adhesive holding it

  • all together.

  • Yeah, most glass backed phones are glued shut, especially when the phone has an ip67 water

  • resistant rating like this one.

  • But this adhesive is excessive.

  • I can use my razor blade to slice between the glass and the metal frame and cut through

  • some of the adhesive.

  • But since there are never any repair guides from the manufacturer, I'm going into this

  • phone blind and just hoping that I don't cut anything important.

  • With all the adhesive, this is definitely one of the hardest phones to get inside that

  • I've taken apart so far this year.

  • Finally, I am able to peel up that back glass panel revealing a shockingly vibrant wireless

  • charging cable with a pretty sweet golden FC foil wrapping around the camera lenses.

  • This would make a pretty awesome looking clear phone.

  • It would be pretty similar to that Pixel 3 that we made transparent last year.

  • I'll peel off the last little bit of black tape over the top of the wireless charging.

  • Then let's see if this thing still turns on after all that prying.

  • I'm always amazed at the amount of ingenuity and design that goes into making these phones.

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  • Let's see what's under this black and gold panel.

  • There are 8 screws holding the top half to the phone, then the whole thing can start

  • to peel up.

  • There is still adhesive on the right side...surprise.

  • And the ribbon cable for the flash and depth sensing cameras over here as well.

  • I can unplug that ribbon with my plastic pry tool.

  • And then look at all this adhesive.

  • It's getting kind of ridiculous.

  • Now that the back plastics are off, we get our first real glimpse inside at all the cameras

  • still hidden underneath the motherboard.

  • I'll unplug the long gold battery power ribbon and then make my way around to each of the

  • 5 internal cameras, each one unsnapping like a little Lego.

  • And yes, this is indeed the funnest thing I've done all day.

  • Up here is some metallic tape connecting the front camera to the vibration motor.

  • It's a 20 megapixel little guy.

  • It looks like the motherboard is one solid piece running all the way down to the bottom

  • of the phone, so I'll unscrew the 5 bottom plastic screws and pop off the loudspeaker

  • covering that bottom portion of the motherboard.

  • There are 3 white circular water damage indicators on top of the motherboard And then an additional

  • 5 screws holding the motherboard into place inside the frame.

  • And then, of course, we can remove the SIM card tray.

  • This can also be step number one if you're into that kind of thing.

  • But I usually like to spice things up and figure out it's still there later on.

  • Finally the motherboard can shimmy out of the frame revealing some pretty cool stuff.

  • The whole frame is made from milled aluminum with a cutout for the copper heat pipe, and

  • a deeper indention for the camera module that was milled after the frame went through its

  • anodizing process since it's a different color instead of blue.

  • The tiny earpiece is up here in the corner, along with the circular vibrator motor.

  • Taking a look at the backs side of the motherboard, we get a dollop of thermal paste sitting over

  • the processor and these 5 cameras.

  • Since all these cameras do the exact same thing at the exact same time, it's super important

  • that they are all sitting in the exact same housing.

  • If any one of the cameras was out of position, it might mess up the image that the phone

  • is trying to stitch together.

  • Each camera is housed in the same solid block of metal.

  • None of the cameras have OIS either, because if they were all independently optically image

  • stabilizing at the same time, and individually moving themselves to compensate for shakiness,

  • it would be even more difficult to stitch together the image that they are all taking

  • simultaneously.

  • The cameras are also labeled.

  • You can see the bottom and center cameras are RGB or color cameras.

  • And the outer cameras are all mono or black and white detail cameras.

  • It's a pretty cool set up.

  • I'm a fan of new innovations, even if they don't always go mainstream.

  • It's still fun to see how they work from the inside.

  • Unfortunately for us though, Nokia is still not giving up on the super strength adhesive

  • that's holding this whole phone together.

  • Including underneath the battery.

  • My thin metal pry tool is no match for the battery adhesive.

  • I can grab my plastic tool for more leverage, but even then, the battery is bending at unsafe

  • levels.

  • Batteries are made up of positive and negative layers all wrapped around each other.

  • And if those layers bend or crush into each other, the battery can short out, spark, and

  • start a fire.

  • So it's super annoying when companies put permanent adhesive underneath the batteries.

  • And for that reason alone, I highly recommend that you do not buy this phone.

  • Future battery replacements would be near impossible and recycling the phone after it's

  • life is over is even harder.

  • Instead, just buy a phone that can be repaired and recycled easier than this one.

  • Along with the unnecessary amount of adhesive, Nokia also put the display flex ribbon right

  • under the battery in prime prying location.

  • My efforts to remove the battery ripped the ribbon cable for the screen, most likely killing

  • the display.

  • The battery also sits on top of an old school first generation under screen fingerprint

  • scanner, which is probably why it struggled so hard to function.

  • It doesn't work near as well as the later under screen fingerprint scanners with lenses

  • and better sensors like inside the OnePlus phones.

  • I'll put the 3320 milliamp hour battery back in its slot over the copper heat pipe.

  • And now it's time to see if I accidentally killed this thing by removing the battery.

  • I'll try smashing the quintuplet cameras back into each of their own little square holes

  • in the motherboard It's kind of hard to line them all up with their squirrely ribbon cables.

  • Honestly, this phone does look really cool inside, but it's definitely not one of my

  • favorite phones to take apart.

  • I mean, except for snapping in all 5 camera ribbons like little Legos.

  • I'll do that part again any day.

  • I'll get the front camera back into place, and then the battery gets plugged in and the

  • 5 screws holding down the motherboard.

  • Then I can clip in the back panel ribbon cable and get the plastics all situated with their

  • screws.

  • And unfortunately, just like I feared, the aggressive battery removal toward the display

  • ribbon that was hidden underneath the battery, I only get vibration and sound, but no image.

  • Usually we are successful with these reassemblies even though we go in without knowing what

  • to expect.

  • So I guess could we say that the Nokia 9 fails the teardown?

  • Until companies stop putting permanent adhesive under their batteries, I'm going to suggest

  • not buying this phone.

  • Simple pull tabs or gentle adhesive is more than enough, and it's not like the batteries

  • are going to go try to escape all on their own.

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  • I'll see you around.

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